Blame it on years of inbreeding because Charity is cruel and ruthless enough to frame her own cousin for burning down Home Farm - but then the prize is a big one

And that’s appropriate considering Simple Sam Dingle is about as intelligent as one.

As the saying goes, who needs enemies when you’ve got a family like this?

Blame it on years of inbreeding because Charity is cruel and ruthless enough to frame her own cousin for burning down Home Farm at Christmas.

But
then the prize is a big one. Half of Declan’s “millions” in insurance.

So luckily he wasn’t too skint to pay the premiums, then.

From the very start, though, this story has been unconvincing, if not ludicrous.

For while the entire resources of the local fire brigade, with all their hi-tech equipment, failed to find Declan’s trapped and injured sister Megan, he just sneaked into the burning house and simply strolled out with her. As you do.

Now,
just as a panicky Sam and soppy Rachel agree to go away to get married,
the police move in and arrest him, although he does put up a noisy struggle.

Even so, the evidence against him is pretty circumstantial – a Christmas jumper found
at the scene and some inconclusive CCTV.

So it’s not as if the police have found a petrol can with ‘Sam Dingle’ stencilled on it.